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Re: Autotools; new versions
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:17:20PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:29:25AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >
> >>P.S. corinna: I don't really want to take over maintainership of the
> >>autoconf/automake packages, but I am making this contributition if you
> >>(and the rest of the list) think it is useful.
> >>
> >
> > Pooah. I'm not quite sure if I want to have that extra work. I'm
> > maintaining autoconf and automake only since nobody else is doing
> > that. If you can convince me that it's no extra work or that you're
> > always available if something not ok with the script, though...
>
>
> I'm not going to lie to you -- it IS extra work. However, I hope that
> the extra work is *minimal* -- and to convince you that it is necessary.
>
> The "stable" branch:
> autoconf-2.13
> automake-1.4p5
> I would assume that these will never need to be updated. All current
> development by the GNU guys is on the 2.52/1.5 branches.
>
> the "devel" branch:
> autoconf-2.52
> automake-1.5
> These are the versions you are already maintaining, and keeping current.
> No *additional* work involved here.
Just building with another --prefix, right?
BTW, I would prefer a common path for both packages inside of
/usr to not mess up /usr unneccessarily:
/usr/autotool/stable
/usr/autotool/devel
> and I'll be around.
That's most important ;-)
Corinna
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